GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

My take home from this is that while the most preferred explanation for deprescribing statins and sedative-hypnotics is one focused on the risk of side effects, we also need to individualize it to the patient and the medication that they are taking. It’s underappreciated, I think, by providers and by patients. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

So they can be referred by their primary care doctor or to us. You can choose comfort-focused care or you can choose to continue chemotherapy. In many cases, the families were the victims of the crime. They didn’t have a mentor, a financial provider, all of those things. They suffered from it.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

And I think that I love this paper you wrote because the audience or the patients that you focused on in the last four years in particular also in a Venn diagram, like many of the same patients I care for in home based primary care. Ashwin 37:38 I like these open ended questions as well.

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

And so clearly it matters how you bring up the topic, who brings up the topic, and probably the timing when this comes up for patients and families, just like we think about conversations about illness and prognostic understanding, I wish there was a good prevalent state data on how big this is of a problem in serious illness at large.

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